Effect of structural shapes of scattering layer on energy conversion efficiency in dye-sensitized solar cells

Won Yeop Rho; Mohammed Vaseem; Hwa Young Yang; Tahmineh Mahmoudi; Seul Ki Lee; Yoon Bong Hahn

doi:10.1166/sam.2016.2635

Effect of structural shapes of scattering layer on energy conversion efficiency in dye-sensitized solar cells

Won Yeop Rho
, Mohammed Vaseem
, Hwa Young Yang
, Tahmineh Mahmoudi
, Seul Ki Lee
, Yoon Bong Hahn^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Division of International Engineering and Science

Jeonbuk National University

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Various ZnO materials with shapes of micro-flower, nanosheet and hexagonal nanoplate were synthesized by simple solution process and utilized for scattering layer in a novel dye-sensitized solar cell. All synthesized ZnO structures possessed high purity crystalline wurtzite structures grown in the (001) direction with the size ranges from micrometer to nanometer. The light harvesting efficiency was substantially increased due to enhanced light scattering effects of structural shapes, resulting in power conversion efficiency (η) of 5.57% with ZnO hexagonal nanoplates, i.e., ~13.53% improvement over the cell without the ZnO structures (η = 4.90%).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	236-240
Number of pages	5
Journal	Science of Advanced Materials
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1166/sam.2016.2635
State	Published - 2016.01.1

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Keywords

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC)
Hexagonal nanoplates
Scattering layer
ZnO nanostructures

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Effect of structural shapes of scattering layer on energy conversion efficiency in dye-sensitized solar cells

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